We will live.....( Main thread)

Atlas looked at Stella as she arrived and saw Rai hand her some water, 'At least someone has water to spare.' she thought, "That status is also that this door has a key lock instead of a pass code." she stated as she pulled out one of her knives and a shiv and began to work on the door. "The sooner we're out of the tunnel the sooner we can find somewhere to rest." she added as she listened to the clicking of the lock.

A few moments later the lock turned and Atlas had opened the door, "And that's how it's done!" she said with excitement, "You two ready to get going or do you still need a breather?" she asked as she pushed the door out.

Stella panted and shook her head "n-no... I'm fine" She stood up right "save it, we don't know the next time we might run into fresh water." She looked to Atlas and shook head to her "I'm fine" She said catching her breath and nodded "lets get going."

Rai nods." Right...So I'm guessing you can crack it." At Raith's next sentence, he nods."Agreed!" Seeing the door open, the boy let's out a small cheer, then looks at Stella."You sure?....Alright." He puts the bottle back up, grinning."I'm ready as well!!"

"Good, before we head out we need to find where we want to go," Atlas said as she walked up a small hill out of the tunnle, "Do we want to stay in the city or try to live on the outskers?" she asked as she pulled her hood over her head.

Stella pulled out her axe's not knowing if they would encounter any zombies when they went out. "Clearly since all the zombies are being drawn into the city with the bandits we should head out from the city. We might have to fight some zombies on the way but the further out we go the less we may encounter. Besides It's less likely they will find us out there than in the city."

Rai follows the girls out,going out with a wary glance, rubbing his side carefully. When Raith asks weither they should stay or go, he let's Stella put in her opinion, then states his."I agree. The city is getting risky,for the moment. We should probably retreat out."

Atlas nodded and pulled out one of her knives, "Good point, and as far as I know zombies can't climb trees, so if worst comes to worst we climb out of their reach." She then, without delay began to walk into the wood.

((did anyone get that pun?))

She nodded and followed them out. As they left they'd notice that a horde the size of nearly half the city was past them and was making their way into the city following the music. She looked from the horde back forward to the others to see if they too had noticed it or not.

( Heehee, yep.^^Nice one!!)

Rai grins."Good idea!!!" They begin to leave, going into the forest, and the machete begins to whistle, only for it to fade slowly as he spots the hord."Ah......" He gulps, then clears his throat."Right....well, let's be careful."

'Be careful, duh.' Atlas thought as she looked back and saw what Rai was talking about, then looked forward again and on her way into thick blackness of the woods following the straight and oddly clear old path.

Stella nodded to Rai moving as quietly as she could with them to avoid attracting attention. As they walked Stella unknowingly got close to a corpse that hung from a tree. the corpse sprung to life and grabbed hold of her jacket with a death grip as it groaned out at her. She steeped forward and from the sudden grip as she went to step forward she accidentally jerked the upper torso only zombie that was hanging from its guts from the tree.

It's weight pulled her down making her eep as she fell. The Zombie started to climb on her and she gasped and turned her face away as she quickly grabbed the zombies head at bay as it tried getting closer to bite at her as she reached out trying to grab one of her axes that she dropped when getting yanked down not wanting to shout out for help to draw attention to them.

((Hellbreaker?))

( AH CRUD!!!!! Sorry, you two! Completely slipped my mind!I humbly beg your forgiveness!!)

Rai grins sheepishly. OK..that was a little redudent, but he couldn't think of a better reaction. You try being clever at the sight of a zombie horde.He follows the girls, then Stella gets jumped by a zombie.He turns, hearing it, and curse under his breath as he pulls his Katana Machete.The boy points it downward, watching for his opportunity, then takes it...The last thing the zombie would feel, if it was still capable, would be cold steel entering the base of its skull. Rai twists, finishing off the spinal cord.

Atlas was unaware of the zombie in teh tree and Stella being attacked until she nolanger heard her companions' foot steps behind her, then she turned and saw that Stella was on the ground and Rai was practically stapping the head off of the Zombie that was on top of her. "What did I miss?" she asked walking back to the others in astonishment.

Stella froze as Rai went to stab the zombie not wanting to accidentally cause him to miss and hit her. She closed her eyes sighing as he managed to kill it and waited for him to pull his weapon out before shoving the zombie off. She relaxed on the ground for a moment before sitting up grabbing her axes looking to Atlas. "A tree zombie...."